MS VC Summit 2008 Day One

First impressions of. Microsoft VC Summit 2008.

The event takes place in Mountain View, California (very close to Guugla ).

It drew about 50 people, a large group of Microsoft courting.

many Russians. Of those I know - Alexander Johnson ( DFDzh ), Arthur Baganov, Alex Gurevich ( DFDzh ), Sergei Eremin (Moscow of Microsoft ), Alexander Kashirin ( SBAR ). From our - I'm just Vlad Voskresensky ( InviziblSRM ).

Microsoft started an interesting case. They decided to create a venture capital infrastructure, which should have the following objectives:.

a.
Create a bridge between entrepreneurs and investors.

2.
Helping start-ups for a variety of areas, ranging from technical assistance, ending the search for experts who can connect for mentoring.

3.
Use an affiliate network to promote.

4.
It is interesting to try to present what they would like to see start-ups do not suffer from the closure strategy MS, m. e. to start-ups did not work on products that will do the MC. On the one hand it's good knowing that MS plans to employers will not risk their business by developing products that are coming on the market will be crushed by the MS marketing machine. On the other hand, if you follow this mainstream, then products such as Opera and Fayrfoks not appear. Still, more risk - more income, so I said, as the controversial issue.

Very serious people gathered, which are responsible for different areas of work with start-ups, from the vertical products, ending the geographical focus.

But it looks like this whole thing, as you can not resist - to lead. J. MS is usually attacked by start-ups, which are invested in venture funds, and thus creating favorable conditions for them to cooperate, you can buy their loyalty. access to information about what 's hot in the market currently. And everything is created so that start-ups it was hard to refuse such cooperation.

Let's see what will happen tomorrow - should be open to the idea of ​​Steve Ballmer. Let's listen to. Everything looks very tasty.

Everything looks very nice on the eve of Investdnya Blogcamp, MS signed a support, it looks as part of their strategy, which was read.

Special thanks to Alexander Orekhov, who invited me to the summit.